Healing Relationships

So, turn to Romans 8, 6, you'll see it on the screen.

This is where we'll begin about following the Spirit.

It says, for to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

So, In that passage, you've got, if I set the mind on the flesh, which means I'm gonna do what I wanna do, what comes natural to me.

You might think, well, what comes natural to you? The Bible tells us in Galatians 5.

We memorize Galatians 5 as the fruit of the Spirit, the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness.

We memorize it in Bible study, in Bible school, in all the things.

What we don't memorize and what we neglect is the fruit of the flesh.

which comes right before the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5.

What it says is what comes natural to us is envy, bitterness, jealousy, strife, fits of anger, rage.

Those are all horizontal emotions and actions towards other people when they wrong us.

That's what comes natural to us.

The scripture says in Romans 8, 6, when you set your mind in accordance to the flesh, it leads to death.

relational death, sin that leads to death.

It creates and makes you, think about smoking and how you're cancerous and how much I would stink if I did smoke and you came and talked to me.

It'd be off-putting and cancerous towards others.

That's what it is to be given to the flesh.

It's cancer to you.

It leads to death, relationships with other people.

But God doesn't leave us there.

He says, but to set the mind on the Spirit... is life, not death, and it leads to peace.

That we would have peace in our relationships as we follow the spirit, not the flesh.

Now, some of you are like, man, I needed you to say this because I've got strife at home with my parents or my spouse.

I've got drama at work, drama with my roommates, drama with my classmates, drama on my team, drama with my coach.

I wanna offer to you that if you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.